When I heard the news, I was so depressed...as you know I love my Wedgwood. But, I think that the company has not stayed current...not the way Royal Copenhagen has. They need a young designer to come in and breath fresh air into the old designs.

i second janet- they really need fresh blood in their line. i LOVE wedgewood's jasperware, particularly in black (collected it for a bit) and think it could be so fabulous if it were updated to be more modern.

A good friend gave me an antique set of Wedgwood for Christmas. It has been handed down through the family, but she and her husband thought it "suited me" more than them. I was ... shall we say...gobsmacked. And feel even luckier with this current news!

The Times article is very interesting, and I had no idea about the Charles Darwin connection. Is this demise (of Wedgwood) the "natural selection" process of his Theory of Evolution (Ikea over Wedgwood)?!

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Pigtown Design is the musings of Meg Fairfax Fielding, a Baltimore-based writer, photographer and fund-raiser, who explores design, architecture, culture, and current events in Baltimore and around the world.